Dartmouth Blanked By Visiting Colgate
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 2nd - 03:38 | McCann, Mike (Colgate) |
| 3rd - 05:04 | Wagner, Chris (Colgate) |
| 3rd - 05:43 | Prockow, Nick (Colgate) |
| 3rd - 16:35 | PP - Firman, Matt (Colgate) |
| Colgate | Dartmouth |
|---|---|
|
G:
4 Players (#15, #21, #23, #26 - 1)
A: Austin Mayer - 2 Sh: Chris Wagner - 6 Sv: Eric Mihalik - 30 |
G:
N/A
A: N/A Sh: Doug Jones - 6 Sv: James Mello - 26 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Colgate | Dartmouth |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 1 for 4 | 0 for 2 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 3 (6) | 5 (10) |
| Shots on Goal | 30 | 30 |
| Face Offs Won | 20 | 31 |
HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth men’s hockey team was
held off the scoreboard for the first time this season as Colgate
came into Thompson Arena Friday night and won, 4-0. The shutout
loss to their ECAC Hockey foe snapped the Big Green's two-game win
streak.
Senior goaltender James Mello (Rehoboth, Mass.) made 26 saves in
the losing effort, including turning aside all 13 shots he faced in
the first period. Colgate’s (6-3-1, 2-1 ECAC Hockey) Eric
Mihalik picked up his fifth win of the season and earned the first
shutout of his career as he stopped all 30 Dartmouth (3-2, 2-1 ECAC
Hockey) shots in the game.
The two teams battled to a scoreless tie after one period, despite
back-and-forth play that saw several scoring chances for both.
Colgate’s Mike McCann scored on a long slap shot 3:38 into
the second to give his team the 1-0 lead.
That one-goal advantage held up through 40 minutes of play.
It was early in the third period that Colgate began to build on
its lead, doing so in a short burst. The Raiders’ Chris
Wagner and Nick Prockow scored tallies just 39 seconds apart in the
sixth minute of the period to make it a three-goal game.
Matt Firman finished the scoring on a top-shelf shot with 3:25
remaining to makeit 4-0.
Mello did his part to keep it close, making several key saves. His
biggest stop of the night came off a toe-save on the goal line
against Colgate’s top scorer, Austin Smith, on a 2-on-1 break
near the end of the second period.
Defenseman Dan Nycholat (Calgary, Alberta) led the Big Green with
four blocked shots in the game.
Dartmouth was 0-for-2 with the man-advantage, while
Colgate’s final tally came on the power play as the Raiders
went 1-for-4.
Senior Doug Jones (Marietta, Ga.) and sophomore Matt Lindblad
(Winnetka, Ill.) were back on the ice for the Big Green after
missing last weekend’s contests with Quinnipiac and
Princeton. The two combined for six shots on goal.
Dartmouth will be back in action Saturday night when it hosts
Cornell at 7 p.m. at Thompson Arena. The Big Red defeated Harvard,
4-2, Friday night in Cambridge to improve to 2-1 in ECAC Hockey
play and evened their overall record at 2-2.
